Terms of Use and License
These terms cover the Harbor app and this website. They’re written to be read; if anything is unclear, ask us.
Effective November 11, 2026
1. Who these terms are with
Harbor is made by the Harbor team (“we”, “us”). By downloading, installing or using Harbor, or by buying a license, you agree to these terms. If you’re accepting them for a company, you confirm you can bind that company.
2. Trial
You may use Harbor free for 14 days to decide whether you want it. After the trial, Harbor keeps its basic dock features and asks for a license for the rest. The trial is for evaluation; please don’t try to reset or get around it.
3. Your license
- When you buy Harbor, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use it on up to 3 Macs that you own or control, for personal or business use. Each license is for one person.
- The license includes all Harbor 1.x updates. Future major versions may be sold separately; you can keep using the version you have.
- Harbor checks your license with our server when you activate it and about once a month, and keeps working offline for up to 60 days between checks.
- You can move your license between Macs by deactivating one and activating another.
4. What you may not do
- Share, sell, rent or publish your license key, or use it on more Macs than your license allows.
- Copy, modify, or redistribute Harbor, or remove or work around its licensing, except where the law expressly allows it despite this restriction.
- Reverse engineer Harbor, except where the law allows it despite this restriction.
- Use Harbor or this website to break the law or to harm others, or try to disrupt our servers.
5. Buying, prices and refunds
Orders are processed by our reseller and merchant of record, Lemon Squeezy, which sells you the license on our behalf and handles payment, taxes and receipts under its own terms. Prices are shown before you pay and may change in the future; a change never affects a license you already bought. Refunds are covered by our refund policy. If a payment is refunded or charged back, the license is cancelled.
6. Changes Harbor makes to your Mac
To take the place of the macOS Dock, Harbor can change your Dock settings while it runs (it sets the Dock to auto-hide with a long delay) and puts your own settings back when you turn this off or quit Harbor. You can turn this off at any time. Instructions to restore the Dock by hand are on the download page. Harbor only uses the permissions you grant it in macOS.
7. Other services
Some widgets show information from other services, such as weather from Open-Meteo or plan usage from your own Claude account. Those services are provided by their owners under their own terms, may change or stop, and are not under our control. Names of other products are used only to describe compatibility and belong to their owners.
8. Updates and support
Harbor can update itself (you can turn this off). We aim to keep Harbor working on new versions of macOS, but we can’t promise it will work with every future macOS release. We provide support by email at support@harbordock.app.
9. Ownership
Harbor, its design and this website belong to us and are protected by copyright and other laws. Your license lets you use Harbor; it doesn’t transfer ownership. Your layouts, notes and settings are yours.
10. Ending the license
You can stop using Harbor at any time. We may end your license if you seriously break these terms, for example by sharing your key publicly; we’ll tell you by email first when we can. If the license ends, you must stop using the paid features.
11. No warranty
We work hard to make Harbor reliable, but it is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Keep backups of anything important, as you would with any software.
12. Limit of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data or profits, and our total liability for any claim about Harbor is limited to the amount you paid for your license. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.
13. Your consumer rights
Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer law that can’t be waived by contract.
14. Law and disputes
Before going anywhere else, please email us; most problems are solved quickly that way. If you live in the EU or UK, you may also bring a claim where you live.
15. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We’ll change the date above, and tell you about important changes on this site or by email. The terms in force when you bought your license continue to govern that purchase where the law requires.